Christmas Stories

Christmas is the special time of the year. Kids have great fun during Christmas. Christians arrange big parties to celebrate it. Kids like listening to Christmas stories. Christmas stories are always attractive. A Christmas Star by Katherine Pyle and Little Gretchen and Wooden Shoe by Elizabeth Harrison give religious flavor to Christmas. Christmas stories are not always religious. The spiritual power of mistletoe has its origin in the Goddess Frigga and Balder, her son. The story opens up with an important Christian theme of love and well being of all. One is not able to label the connection as pagan as the spirit is Christian; however, Goddess was a mythological persona.

There are wonderful Christmas stories about Christ's birth, which attract kids most. Pablo and Mario have decided to adorn the bed of Jesus with weeds as they can not afford costly gifts for him. The miracle happened when weeds turn out to be red star flowers. The myth truly does not have the name of the flower in it. The name comes from another story. The ambassador Dr Joel Poinsett bought red star flowers to U .S. Therefore, we come to know the name of the flower from this person. The legend is the best mixing of a reality and a myth.

Several Christmas stories evolve round helping Christmas spirit. The migrating birds get shelter from pine, juniper and spruce tree in the center of frost and snow. The frost king punished oak and willow trees for their selfish approach as well as rewarded the kind trees with green leaves for the entire year. This is the legend of evergreen trees. Mainly Christmas stories have child characters. Christmas carols by Dickens carry secular spirit of a festival. The Elves and Toinette by Susan Coolidge give us best stories on the vent. Few are directly connected to the birth of Christ and few were a part of the event. However, later on religious importance has been added to them for making them apt for Christmas spirit.

Christmas stories are great tools for conveying in a simple language what Christmas stands for. Christ's birth is only an event and the legends are there to explain why Jesus was bought in this world of sin. Therefore, vanity and quarrel with evil is a common theme of several Christmas stories. Christmas stories are pretty motivating with the essence of miracle. Fancy, mystery and magic certainly have a worldwide appeal. They are basically best stories with true characters fighting their bad luck and eventually meeting their good luck. The readers get pleasure as poetic justice is done. The world has been classified into white and black or good and evil. There are no modern gray characters and so less intricate and easy to understand. Therefore, they are ideal kids stories till date. Why do we believe all these? Mainly, it is due to the satisfaction we get when evils are punished and we get the hope to meet the dream world of Clara in nutcracker legend.